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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of it

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. – Andrew Motion

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – its just that Im one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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